The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02

was almost instantly killed, and two other
laborers were badly burned. The three
men were in q trench, and one of them
carelessly ignited the gas.
On the path an engineer and fireman
were killed in a collision on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad at Easton siding, twenty
miles east of Wheeling, w. Va.
On the oath, Captain James P. Murphy,
ono of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of
Kittaning, Pa, was struck by the Buffalo
express on the Allegheny Valley railroad
and instantly killed. Captain Murphy was
born in 1876, and resided in Armstrong &
County nearly all his life.
Ok the oath Dan Truitt, negro, who at
tempted to murder his wife at Mount YER
non, Ind, a few weeks ago, was captured
by Marshal Schneider. Truitt knocked his
wife in the head with a coupling-pin and
then threw her in the river. She was res
cued by neighbors.
on the oath while at work on the steamer
Rosedale at Mount Vernon, Ind, two
negro men, Tom Lewis and Austin Will
Jams, quarreled and Lewis struck Will
Jams in the mouth with his open hand.
This so enraged Williams that he drew a
razor and literally cut Lewis to pieces, in
flicting about thirty terrible wounds,
which viii probably prove fatal.
On the oath the Martins Ferry (OO
three O'Clock in the morning. The loss
will probably reach $4,000 on stock and
buildings; insurance, $4,000. The stock
consisted of 1900 cooking and heating
stoves, patterns and machinery.
OK the night of the oath a wreck occurred
on the Union Pacific road in Colorado, by
which one human life was lost and several
persons injured.
MRS. FRANCIS ROBERTS, of New York,
Al l. -
ing $4,000 of the money embezzled from
the Manhattan Bank by Teller Scott, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of $4,000
this afternoon.
On the oath, the schooner Clara, of Man
istee, was driven ashore near Miller, Ind,
and her wreckage was strewn along the
beach for miles. Captain Olson, her mas
ter and owner, and one of his sailors lost
their lives, and John GustavsOn, the mate,
escaped by swimming ashore on a plank.
On the oath Nathan Phipps, coal miner
living at Millwood, seven miles from
Latrobe, Pa, shot and mortally wounded
his friend, John RObb, after which he
terribly injured Mrs. Phipps, by stabbing
her and breaking several of her ribs. He
then armed himself with a rife and shot
gun and fed to the woods.
On the 25th Prof. H. S. Whitney, of the
Excelsior academy, on the shores of Lake
Minnetonka, was drowned in the lake.
Three children were playing on a raft
which went to pieces, and he, swimming
out to save them, became entangled in the
weeds and was drowned. Two of the
children were rescued alive, the third was
drowned.
AT Parkersburg, W. Va, ex-Congress-
man Eustace Gibson has been jailed for
contempt of court
AT the Cheboygan (Mich.) Lumber Com
pany's mill a log carriage was accidently
started on the evening of the 25th, result
ing in horrible and probably fatal injuries
to Edmund Lapeer and Dan Albright.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
engine-room of Herbert E. JOhnson's corn
canning factory at Gorham, Me-, on the
26th. One man was killed and a number
of others seriously injured.
THE body Of Albert Huber, prosperous
farmer in Miami, o., was found in his
cOrn-crib on the morning of the 26th, the
top of his head blown off, a shotgun by his
side and other circumstances clearly indi-
eating suicide.
FIRE broke out in w. II. Harsh's flour
mill at Winterset, Ia, on the 26th, and de-
stroyed the entire structure, with all its
contents. Loss, 5000; insurance, $1,000.
The fire is supposed to have originated
from hot box.
The owners of the fishing shooner Lydia
T. CroweH, of Beverly, Mass, have given
her up for lost. She was ninety-fve tons
burthen. 1t is believed that all on board
were lost. She was in charge of Captain
Moses Larl1in, of Nova Scotia, and had a
crew of fifteen men. She was insured.
THE pleasure yacht Ilifracombe, while
sailing in the Thames on the 26th, turned
back to recover a boat-hoOk, which had
fallen overheard, when she was struck by
squaH and capsized. There were twenty.
one persons ON board, ell of whom were
thrown into the water and twelve of them
were drowned.